"Masquerade," by omphale and slidellra (NC-17)
Title: Masquerade
Authors: slidellra and omphale23
Pairing: K/F
Length: 37,000 words.
Rating: NC-17. Like there was any doubt about that.
Prompt: (Significantly played with) Character A returns to Chicago from a holiday in Canada to find that his wife has been murdered. He is later told by CIA agent Denny Scarpa that his wife was one of five people who stole $250,000 in gold from the U.S. government during World War II, and the government wants it back. The money was not found among her possessions, and A can shed no light on its whereabouts. Later that day he is visited by character B, whom he had met briefly while on holiday. When his wife's former partners in crime, who were double-crossed by her, start calling him looking for the money, B offers to help find it. A can't help his attraction to B, but is he who appears to be?
Notes:This is 'that Charade thing' that we've been talking about for months. It's finally finished.
We'd like to thank all of the betas who worked on this--eledhwenlin, j_s_cavalcante, madsciencechick, and wordplay. They gave us great advice, even if we didn't always take it. We'd also like to thank all of you who listened to us talk about this piece over the last few months, and shoemaster, who gave us a challenge to post it by suggesting a prompt that was so wonderfully close to a story we might never have otherwise finished.
Any remaining mistakes are entirely our own.
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Authors: slidellra and omphale23
Pairing: K/F
Length: 37,000 words.
Rating: NC-17. Like there was any doubt about that.
Prompt: (Significantly played with) Character A returns to Chicago from a holiday in Canada to find that his wife has been murdered. He is later told by CIA agent Denny Scarpa that his wife was one of five people who stole $250,000 in gold from the U.S. government during World War II, and the government wants it back. The money was not found among her possessions, and A can shed no light on its whereabouts. Later that day he is visited by character B, whom he had met briefly while on holiday. When his wife's former partners in crime, who were double-crossed by her, start calling him looking for the money, B offers to help find it. A can't help his attraction to B, but is he who appears to be?
Notes:This is 'that Charade thing' that we've been talking about for months. It's finally finished.
We'd like to thank all of the betas who worked on this--eledhwenlin, j_s_cavalcante, madsciencechick, and wordplay. They gave us great advice, even if we didn't always take it. We'd also like to thank all of you who listened to us talk about this piece over the last few months, and shoemaster, who gave us a challenge to post it by suggesting a prompt that was so wonderfully close to a story we might never have otherwise finished.
Any remaining mistakes are entirely our own.
Notes, soundtrack, and story links
Soundtrack-free notes and story links